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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Nicolas, you indirectly found the problem. I have the prj file, but for whatever reason qgis could not see it. I took the group of the 6 files and copied them all to the particular gis directory and ola it worked. Thank you all for helping.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Jake<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> qgis-user-bounces@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:qgis-user-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Nicolas Cadieux<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, December 16, 2014 12:25 PM<br><b>To:</b> qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Qgis-user] Maine West (ft) projection<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p><br>Hi,<br>You should look for the .prj that should be with the .shp. If it's not there, your file was probably imported using the project CRS and that explains why it's in the wrong place... If the .prj is there, but not recongized in QGIS, it should have been imported as a User CRS.<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>If you can't find it, or if it's wrong, google EPSG and proj4. You should find what you are looking for and then you can create a user CRS in QGIS.<o:p></o:p></p><p>Nicolas Cadieux M.Sc.<br>Les Entreprises Archéotec inc. <br>8548, rue Saint-Denis Montréal H2P 2H2<br>Téléphone: 514.381.5112 Fax: 514.381.4995<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Le 2014-12-16 11:53, "Jake Maier [via OSGeo.org]" <<a href="/user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=5178067&i=0" target="_top">[hidden email]</a>> a écrit :<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>I received a shape file with a projection of Maine West (ft)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>On the fly transformation placed the property somewhere west of Brazil in the Atlantic Ocean.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>I checked all the projection and didn’t find Maine West in qgis.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>How can I add it to the list of projections? What information do I need for that?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Thanks for any pointers.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Jake<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>_______________________________________________ <br>Qgis-user mailing list <br><a href="/user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=5178063&i=0" target="_top">[hidden email]</a> <br><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user" target="_top">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user</a> <o:p></o:p></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><hr size=1 width="100%" noshade style='color:#CCCCCC' align=center></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#444444'>If you reply to this email, your message will be added to the discussion below:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#444444'><a href="http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Maine-West-ft-projection-tp5178063.html" target="_top">http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Maine-West-ft-projection-tp5178063.html</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-top:4.8pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.0pt'><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#666666'>To start a new topic under Quantum GIS - User, email ml-node+<a href="/user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=5178067&i=1" target="_top">[hidden email]</a> <br>To unsubscribe from Quantum GIS - User, <a href="" target="_top">click here</a>.<br><a href="http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=macro_viewer&id=instant_html%21nabble%3Aemail.naml&base=nabble.naml.namespaces.BasicNamespace-nabble.view.web.template.NabbleNamespace-nabble.view.web.template.NodeNamespace&breadcrumbs=notify_subscribers%21nabble%3Aemail.naml-instant_emails%21nabble%3Aemail.naml-send_instant_email%21nabble%3Aemail.naml" target="_top"><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>NAML</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div class=MsoNormal><hr size=2 width=300 style='width:225.0pt' align=left></div><p class=MsoNormal>View this message in context: <a href="http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Maine-West-ft-projection-tp5178063p5178067.html">Re: Maine West (ft) projection</a><br>Sent from the <a href="http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Quantum-GIS-User-f4125267.html">Quantum GIS - User mailing list archive</a> at Nabble.com.<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>